Africa Centre
The Africa Centre was established in 2005 as an international arts and culture centre and social innovator based in Cape Town, South Africa. Physical offices are on the 5th floor, 28 St Georges Mall, Cape Town.
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Projects
The Africa Centre projects include:
Artists in Residency Programme
In partnership with international residency organisations around the world, the project awards residency opportunities to African artists, across disciplines, who are highly engaged with social issues and their art forms.
Space for Pan African Research Creation and Knowledge
A Pan-African initiative of experimental multi-disciplinary residencies, workshops, exhibitions, publications and performances centered on innovative approaches to urban space.
Badilisha Poetry X-Change
A poetry podcast platform exclusively dedicated to the exposure and archive of both the contemporary and historical voices from Africa and its Diaspora.
Spier Contemporary
The largest visual and performance art biennale in Africa, featuring artwork from over 100 artists at each of its iterations.
Everyday African Urbanism
A way of seeing and solving urban problems.
Talking Heads
Sharing the ideas, visions and manifestations of extraordinary people living in Africa. Infecting the City - an annual public arts festival that stages and exhibits thought-provoking works in the communal spaces of Cape Town.
WikiAfrica
An international collaboration that uses a range of interventions to redresses the critical imbalance of factual information about Africa on Wikipedia.
Pan-African Space Station
A genre-busting exploration of global African music that turns on sound interventions across Africa via its online radio station.
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